AU Persuades City to Include Diversity in its Roster of City Council Prayergivers - Huntsville, AL

Jul 21, 2016

Date Resolved

Sat, 05/31/2014 - 20:00

When the Huntsville City Council rescinded an invitation to a Wiccan priest to offer an invocation to open one of its meetings because residents objected to his faith, AU explained that the Constitution does not permit the council to exclude speakers or treat them differently because of their religious beliefs. After receiving AU’s letter, the council invited the Wiccan priest to be part of a rotating schedule of invocation speakers for future meetings, and it also permitted an atheist to deliver an invocation.